Originally Posted By ecdc <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/01/stephen-colbert-rips-apar_n_181673.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...673.html</a> This is some hilarious stuff!
Originally Posted By utahjosh I did laugh at some of it, because Colbert is dang funny. I also think this will influence hundreds of thousands of people to believe that Glenn Beck is not sincere. It's a little too mean-spirited, and it mockes Glenn's honorable 9-12 project.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I'm not sure if it's honorable or just self-promoting. After all, its stated aim is honorable per se but completely unattainable in any measurable way: "get back the feeling you had on 9/12." It's like a project to "be kinder to your fellow man." A good thought, to be sure, but too amorphous to come to anything, and not likely to come via any TV personality.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I'd feel better if it was truly about "get back the feeling you had on 9/12." Because there certainly WAS more of a feeling that "we're all in this together." For a time, people were nicer to each other, less aggressive, less combative with fellow Americans. And then you look at the site and it looks an awful lot like the usual partisan stuff he (or any other talk radio guy) would have put up. Disappointing. It may be an honorable concept or ideal, but the execution is same old, same old. <a href="http://theglennbeck912project.com/" target="_blank">http://theglennbeck912project.com/</a>
Originally Posted By ecdc Exactly. It's hard to take Beck seriously when he says he wants us all to be together when he labels people like me and President Obama "socialists" at every turn. And let's none of us ignore that whole "I hate the 9/11 families" thing. When you're in the business of generating controversy to drum up ratings (then turning around and saying, "Just kidding - where's your sense of humor!") it's pretty tough to say you want Americans to work together.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan It's hard to take Beck seriously when he says he wants us all to be together<< The best part of the Colbert spoof is the concept of "them". You look at Beck's 9-12 site and there is a lot of talk of "them" and it's plainly obvious that "them" is either anyone you want it to be or Democrats. Which is really too bad, because getting back to that truly kinder, gentler nation we were for a few precious weeks and months would be an okay thing. The reason "9-12" was unique was because most people actually did put away the partisan rhetoric for a short while. Beck's little promotion does the opposite. It wraps itself in the high emotion of that time without any of the genuine spirit of it.
